River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-14
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

Inc Otan CONSTITUTIONAL convention i
has undertaken to grapple with the Nor
mon-pOlygamy question. Elections have
been proposed providing thai bigamy and
polygamy being considered incompatible
with a republican form of government,
each of them Is hereby forbidden and de
clared a misdemeanOr. The punishment
for violation is fine not exceeding 500 4
and Imprisonment for not less than six 4
months nor more than three years. The /
section shall be construed as operative /
without legislation and offenses prohibited /
VIII not be barred 10y any statute of limita-
ton, nor shall the power of pardon extend i
thereuntO until such pardon he approved /
by the President of the United States Any 4
amendment revision, or change to the /
foregoing section shall not become a law /
tail ratified by congress and the president of /
the United States. These sections have /
been agreed 20 IN committee and caucus,
and IL is thought will undoubtedly be passed |
10y the convention. The Mormon leaders /
think this will prove the settlement of the /
vexatious Mormon problem
At Peru. Ind. on the 9th. John Chris |
the surgeon in charge of Wabash, st. Louis 1
4 Pacific X. r., hospital at Peru. Christian
sons step-daughter married against hia /
wishes tie called to see her and begsy |
beating Fer, but was frightened away bn |
several men, including DIR. North. when the /
shooting followed TWENTY-FIVE maskep |
men appeared at the Jail aud demanded the |
keys This demand was refused and the /
mob broke down the large iron door and in |
fifteen minutes had Christensen in their |
possession. lis was taken TO the bridge |
crossing the Wabash river, where he was |
twice strung up, the first time without the /
desired result but the second time his life |
was extinguished- The lynching was wit |
messed 10y about l.0OCO people.
Ii has been discovered that fifty or |
sixty Chinese Miners have been murdered |
in the placer mines on the Smoke river, in /
Oregon. IL Is the impression that these |
murders have been committed for the pur-
pose of robbing the Chinese OF their gold
dust. and that the crimes We're perpetrated |
Toy white men. The Chinese minister at
W ashington Is said to have been cOmmuni |
Gated with garding the Outrages. Idaho |
papers are calling lou lily on Gov. PenlOyer
of Oregon to make some effort to discover
the perpetrators by offering rewards. The |
Chinese believe there is an organized band |
of anti Monaghan vigilantes raiding the
placer mining regions, and they are fearful
lest other sections of the upper county be
visited and more crimes committed.
A large mass meeting of the st. Louis
Merchants Exchange, was presided over by
President Frank Gaienne. After speeches
by prominent citizens, the following was
adopted The people Of st. Louis respect
fully and earnestly extend to the President
of the United States and to Mrs. Cleveland,
an invitation to visit our city and become
Its guest Tor the week commencing October,
ISL In doing 50 they beg leave TO urge ON
the President their desire to give him a
welcome that will demonstrate the respect
and love they have for him as a public off
Ger anu as a man The MAYOR and IA com
mIttev Of fifty, TO be selected 10y him, were
appointed to proceed TO Washington and
deliver the invitation to the President
Dun * Cos, weekly trade review,
says that the business Of the broken 9th of
july week. has been on the whole encourag-
ing The prospects with which the half
year opens are generally satisfactory. and |
yet financial uncertainties are not entirely !
removed, and there remain great specula- |
tive operations which disturb and threaten.
Crop prospects continue good, though reli- |
able reports OF INJURY from drOuth and bugs
come from Western Nebraska. Southern |
reports are uniformly favorable as to cot |
ton. An increase of 10 per cent IN the acre
age OF hay IS reported, with a probable iu- |
creased yield IN all sections except the cen
tral West though the quality is not quite 50
satisfactory.
The sales of wool. according To |
Bradstreet, for the week at Boston are re-
ported at l.356,OOO pounds, as compared |
with 2,5SI, 90 pounds last week and 4.g4l, 400 |
pounds in the same week last year. At /
Philadelphia business has been very 1ujet |
this week. Manufacturers of cheviots have /
been buying moderately of quarter-bloOd /
domestic and of East India woods suita hle !
for their purposes, but the general demand [
has been light and unsatisfactory. Prices |
are unchanged Receipts continue small
At Denver. Colorado. the death of |
John A. Winter, president Of the Percherou /
Norman Horse company, and one of the /
most prominent citizens of the state, was 4
announced Sunday as the result of catarrah |
OF the stomach. 1t Is now charged that Mr.. /
Writer'S death WAS caused from arsenlcal |
poisoning, and that there has been a crime |
committed.
At Cheyenne, Wyoming. at , O'Clock !
Wednesday morning fire completely de 1
stroyed the stock of dry goods of Cowhich |
a Whitcumb, valued at Sl25,O0O, and dam /
aged the building Sll5,OOO Stock insured /
5000 building insured 5000 Insurance /
distributed between ~ Eastern and foreign |
companies. Cause Of fire unknown.
About three weeks since. fourteen |
tramps were arrested near Canton, o., |
where they had territorized farmers for sew |
eral days They were subsequently indicted /
under the tramp law and a test case was 1
made. Friday they We're found guilty and 1
twelve of them were sentenced To one wears |
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
\ party of German excursionists.
numbering Sc. we're upon the sloop Mystery, /
for a Sunday outing and at half past six in /
the evening when heading for the channel /
of Barren Island. near New York. the SlOOp /
was struck 10y a furious land gale that drove /
out the tide, and capsized the craft. Thirty /
of the party were drowned.
The Missouri state supreme court. in
the case Of Brooks, alias Maxwell, con |
demned for the murder of c. Arthur |
Preller, and sentenced to be hanged Aug /
II. Overruled the motion for a rehearing A 1
repTieye granted to the defendant until /
Aug 36. The defense will make no further /
effort in the case.
The Commercial Bulletin in its June /
record shows the largest fire loss of any 4
June ON record, excepting June. lS17, the /
month of the great fire at St John, " b. 1
The total is $40. ls2, leo against -, 10000 for
June. lSS6, and larger than the average of /
June fires for the 10 years previous to lSS6 /
10y nearly -, OOtOO-
Oscar NJ. Kelly, who shot and killed |
his wife at Mccoy, Polk county, Oregon,
about six weeks ago, was taken from the
jail at Dallas at ? O'Clock 10y a mob and /
hanged On first hearing the mob Kelly 1
broke his lamp and cut his neck. wrists and /
ankles ana was fapluly bleeding TO death i
when SEIZED
The Texas election upon the question
Of Prohibition takes place August 4. The
News sums up the probabilities
Of the vote as it appears today Prohib-
ition lji,3 inducing 27,U00 negroes Anti
Prohibition li0,623 IL is admitted that the
Anti Prohibition vote may be larger than
estimated.
Gen. Walter c. Whitaker, who served
in the Union Army during the war, died at
his home in Lyndon, near Louisville, KY,
night.
IN THE EAST.
At New York City on the 9TH four
suicides transpired: Rudolph V. Craglet
took dose of Paris green and died. His
wife was unfaithful 10 him, 50 he ended his
existence. Christina rpiu forty wears old. /